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Bora Yoon: Phonation
by AAJ Italy Staff
Ascoltando Phonation, ci si chiede a quale viaggio, a quale percorso sonoro stiamo assistendo. Si tratta senza dubbio di un viaggio solitario dell'autrice, il cui tentativo è quello di costruire una nuova musica folk: accostare suoni e brani che indaghino sul significato dell'esistenza, con strumenti moderni (elettronica, synth) e antichi (voce, ciotole tibetane, acqua, mani). Lo ...
Paolo Botti: Angels & Ghosts
by AAJ Italy Staff
Che la musica di Albert Ayler abbia un'anima arcaica, che affondi le proprie radici nel blues, nell'urlo primordiale, nella terra di una nazione che dalla fatica e dagli “spiriti" di tanti afroamericani ha cresciuto l'albero frondoso di una cultura cosmopolita, è elemento che colpisce chiunque si accosti ai dischi del grande tenorista, scomparso tragicamente nelle acque ...
Ark Ovrutski: Sounds Of Brasil
by Dan Bilawsky
What does a Ukrainian-born bassist, who spent the first four decades of his life based primarily in Eastern Europe, know about Brazilian music? This skepticism-filled question might run through the minds of people who hear of bassist Ark Ovrutski's background, but the music on Sounds Of Brasil will instantly squelch any doubt about his skills in ...
Jim Caruso: The Swing Set
by C. Michael Bailey
This disc is 250,000 pounds-per-square-inch cabaret music rendered with a loving and exacting hand by a coy master. Singer Jim Caruso does not take himself seriously while doing exactly that, and it is this quality that makes The Swing Set so much entertaining fun. Caruso's repertoire is not dusty standards, sanded to nothingness; instead, he chooses ...
Roxy Coss: Roxy Coss
by Edward Blanco
There is no question that women musicians have, and continue to play, a major role in jazz--from composers and band leaders such as Maria Schneider to renowned pianist Marian McPartland,--but few make their mark as saxophonists. Roxy Coss is a New York-based saxophonist who, with her self-titled debut, joins the likes of Anat Cohen, Mary Fettig, ...
Ches Smith & These Arches: Finally Out of My Hands
by AAJ Italy Staff
Esce su Skirl Records [e già questo basterebbe per comprarlo a occhi chiusi] l'atteso debutto di Ches Smith, batterista dal talento mostruoso che da qualche anno sta esattamente al centro della nuova Brooklyn. Dopo averlo scoperto con The Door, The Hat, The Chair, The Fact di Ben Goldberg e ascoltato nei Ceramic Dog di Marc Ribot, ...
Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky: Pieces for String Trio and Trumpet
by Glenn Astarita
Longtime Leo Records recording artist, trumpeter Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky leads a string trio on this curiously interesting and immensely entertaining venture, where chamber music, jazz improvisation and European folk attain a synchronous coexistence. Here, the trumpeter divulges the precision of a classical soloist with unorthodox voicings, all enacted by a jazzy impetus. With a fluid attack on ...
Dom Minasi: The Bird, The Girl, The Donkey
by Bruce Lindsay
New York guitarist Dom Minasi has years of experience on the jazz scene as a player, writer, improviser and educator. The Bird, The Girl and The Donkey finds Minasi in the company of some other leading lights of the New York improvised music scene, on five extended pieces characterized by some adventurous interplay, some good-humored musical ...
Liudas Mockunas / Ryoji Hojito: Vacation Music
by John Sharpe
Not as, might be suggested by the title, songs to put you in the holiday mood, but seven improvisations recorded by Lithuanian saxophonist Liudas Mockūnas and Japanese pianist Ryoji Hojito, while the latter was on vacation in Lithuania. The pair met during the course of Hojito's travels around the country and, without thinking too much, went ...
Ron Thomas: Two Lonely People
by Dan McClenaghan
A spin through pianist Ron Thomas's discography as a leader doesn't always directly point toward the music found on Two Lonely People. His two masterful trio outings, Music in Three Parts (Art of Life Records, 2006) and Doloroso (Art of Life Records, 2006) are both full of abstract and elastic originals; the highly electric and compellingly ...
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